Della Vedova chairs the meeting on the observations of the United Nations on restrictions to direct democracy in Italy

The Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Benedetto Della Vedova, chaired the Interministerial Coordination Meeting on the November 2019 observations of the United Nations Human Rights Committee regarding the obstacles faced by forms of direct democracy in Italy. The meeting was attended by representatives of the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of the Interior, the Ministry […]

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Baglioni of Piedmont gets stronger in China thanks to the Venture Capital Fund

The Baglioni Group, a leading Piedmontese company that manufactures and sells carbon steel and stainless steel tanks and pressure vessels, is to build a new factory in China, strengthening its operations and its presence on the Asian market. The operation was made possible thanks also to the public contribution provided by the Venture Capital Fundal (FVC), an instrument […]

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Italian Language Week, between shows and books in The Netherlands

On the Italian Cultural Institute of Amsterdam initiative, a rich programme of events is underway to celebrate the 21st Italian Language Week in the world, which takes place from 18 to 24 October. Events that have already begun in recent weeks and will also be held in the coming months.    Among the upcoming initiatives is […]

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Belo Horizonte: Dante’s Italian and its musicality

The musical nature of the Italian language expressed in the Divine Comedy has inspired a number of cultural events organised by the Italian Consulate in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, on the occasion of the Week of the Italian Language in the World.   The first event, entitled “Music revolving around… Dante”, is a performance of theatre and […]

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Language Week: “Conversations in the square” in Brussels

“Conversazioni in piazza” is the title of a series of meetings, organized by the Embassy of Italy and the Italian Cultural Institute in Brussels, that began the “Week of the Italian Language in the World ” from 18 -24 October. The protagonists are Italian journalists and essayists who will converse with exponents of the Belgian […]

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Videoconferences and short films, Tunis celebrates Dante

A rich program of events will celebrate “Dante, the Italian”, on the occasion of the 21st edition of Italian Language Week in the world, organized by the Italian Institute of Culture in Tunis. The events will be held for audiences and online on the Facebook page and on the YouTube channel of the Institute, produced in collaboration, […]

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2nd stage of ‘Destination Export’: the regional roadshow – dedicated here to the North-East – on a journey of discovery of the opportunities offered by the export.gov.it portal set up by the Foreign Ministry, ICE, SACE and SIMEST agencies, in partnership with the Committee of Regions and Unioncamere

A series of 4 virtual meetings dedicated to companies wishing to learn more about the tools and strategies to support exports, brought together within the Export.gov.it portal as a one-stop-shop. Rome, 20 October 2021 – The first regional roadshow called “Destination Export”, sponsored by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation and implemented by the […]

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Buenos Aires: talking about Dante and his influence on Borges

A conference entitled “Dante, Italian and Argentina”, organised by the Embassy of Italy and the Dante Alighieri Society of Buenos Aires, opened the 21st Week of the Italian Language of the World in Argentina. “More than 80,000 students, six bilingual schools, and 100 Dante Alighieri committees underline the importance of the Italian language in Argentina”, […]

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Siria, è possibile metter fine a una crisi infinita?

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Bahrein, lecture on the poetics of Dante for the Italian Language Week

The Italian Embassy in Manama has announced that today, at 10:30 Italian time, an online lecture will be held on the figure of Beatrice, a symbol of spiritual love and poetic inspiration described by Dante, by Leyla Livraghi, a collaborator of the Dante Network Hypermedia Project of the Department of Philology, Literature and Linguistics of […]

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Minsk: learning Italian diction by reading Dante

Dante Alighieri will be the protagonist of the 21st edition of the Italian Language Week in Minsk with the lessons-performance of Prof. Matteo Spiazzi from the University of Verona. Prof. Spiazzi will involve young students of Italian from the Belarusian universities in a training workshop dedicated to diction, correct pronunciation and reading aloud 3 Cantos […]

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Minister Luigi Di Maio speaks at the “Destinazione Export” Roadshow

The Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Luigi Di Maio, speaks at the second stage of the Roadshow “Destinazione Export”, a cycle of free virtual meetings aimed at deepening all the latest news on export and internationalisation and the tools and measures to support exports made available by the Country System and gathered in […]

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